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Shakespeare, Authority, and the English Catholic Experience
(2020-05-08)
By the time Shakespeare’s plays first appeared on stage in the late-sixteenth century, the Elizabethan campaign against English Catholics had reached its peak. However, Roman Catholicism continued to influence the English ...
Deep in the heart of Texas: nostalgia's ethos in public discourse
(2022-05)
This project argues that nostalgia operates rhetorically as an argument of ethos and that its function within public arguments provides the field of rhetoric an opportunity to reimagine how ethos is produced within political ...
Whose desires are they? The politics of subversion in works by E. M. Forster, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean Rhys.
(2006)
This dissertation examines the ways in which we read representations of the feminine subject in works that have been deemed complicit in strengthening hierarchies of gender and/or race. Building upon feminist critics' ...
The mirror speaks: The female voice in medieval dialogue poetry and drama.
(1998)
I argue that medieval literature, despite its overt emphasis on male sensibility and subjectivity, is permeated with the influence of the feminine. Through dialogue exchanges between male and female characters, identity ...
John Steinbeck :
(1977)
Peckinpah's families :
(1983)
Through the use of biographical criticism, historical criticism and myth criticism, the study established that Peckinpah does in fact work out his theses on the human condition through examination of actual traditional ...
BIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2011)
This dissertation critically examines the concept of Jewish-American literary hyphenation, analyzing its historical and theoretical consequences (chapters one and two), then applying the results of that analysis to three ...
On the use of significant words: Mary Wollstonecraft's contribution to the modern rhetorical tradition.
(1999)
This study addresses the absence of female rhetors and theorists from the modern rhetorical tradition as a minor tradition within the western tradition as exemplified within Bizzell and Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition ...